Rahul Ramesh

CTO

Redmond, Washington, United States20 yrs 5 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

18 years of experience in engineering leadership.
Expert in building scalable streaming systems.
Passionate about empowering teams for real-time excellence.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS expert with a focus on scalable distributed systems.

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Skills

Core Skills

Technology LeadershipEngineering ManagementSoftware As A Service (saas)Service-oriented Architecture (soa)

Other Skills

CommunicationCritical ThinkingCoaching & MentoringManagementContinuous DeliveryProblem SolvingSaaS DevelopmentREST APIsApplication ArchitectureClient SideEngineeringJSONLeadershipStrategyTeam Leadership

About

Results‑oriented engineering leader with over 18 years of experience in building highly reliable, scalable streaming and distributed systems.Currently architecting and optimizing the Kafka control plane at Confluent, delivering high-throughput, low-latency streaming capabilities that power global real-time applications. Previously, I scaled critical infrastructure at Postmates, acquired by Uber and fortified large-scale systems across Microsoft. Passionate about empowering teams to deliver event-driven resilience. I welcome conversations about driving real-time system excellence, scalable systems, how AI is redefining software engineering and Seahawks!

Experience

20 yrs 5 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs 4 mos

Average Tenure

6 yrs 6 mos

Current Experience

Confluent

Engineering Lead @ Confluent

Dec 2019 – Present · 6 yrs 6 mos · Greater Seattle Area

Kafka Control Plane
Event-Streaming & Distributed Systems Expert. Empowering Real-Time Platforms at Confluent

Technology LeadershipCommunicationEngineering ManagementCritical ThinkingCoaching & MentoringManagement+15

Postmates inc.

Engineering @ Postmates

Dec 2017 – Dec 2019 · 2 yrs · Greater Seattle Area

Fleet / CS / BizOps

Technology LeadershipCommunicationEngineering ManagementModel-View-Controller (MVC)Critical ThinkingCoaching & Mentoring+13

Microsoft

4 roles

Senior Software Development Engineer

Aug 2014 – Dec 2017 · 3 yrs 4 mos

System Center Configuration Manager / Microsoft Intune

Technology LeadershipCommunicationEngineering ManagementModel-View-Controller (MVC)Critical ThinkingCoaching & Mentoring+13

Software Development Engineer II

Sep 2011 – Aug 2014 · 2 yrs 11 mos

System Center Configuration Manager

Technology LeadershipCommunicationModel-View-Controller (MVC)Critical ThinkingContinuous DeliveryTeam Culture+11

Software Development Engineer

Dec 2008 – Aug 2011 · 2 yrs 8 mos

System Center Configuration Manager

Model-View-Controller (MVC)Team CultureSoftware as a Service (SaaS)Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)Problem SolvingREST APIs+5

Software Development Engineer - Intern

May 2008 – Jul 2008 · 2 mos · Redmond, WA

System Center Configuration Manager

Model-View-Controller (MVC)Team CultureSoftware as a Service (SaaS)Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)Problem SolvingREST APIs+5

Nokia bell labs

Senior Software Engineer

Dec 2005 – Jul 2007 · 1 yr 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Element Management System Network Software OMCQ / OMC-H
(Formerly Lucent Technologies > Alcatel-Lucent > Nokia )

Technology LeadershipCommunicationEngineering ManagementModel-View-Controller (MVC)Coaching & MentoringManagement+10

Alcatel-lucent

Software Engineer

Jul 2005 – Dec 2005 · 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Element Management Systems for HLR (OMC-H)

CommunicationModel-View-Controller (MVC)Team CultureSoftware as a Service (SaaS)Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)Problem Solving+6

Mascon global

Software Engineer

Jul 2004 – Jul 2005 · 1 yr · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

CommunicationModel-View-Controller (MVC)Team CultureSoftware as a Service (SaaS)Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)Problem Solving+6

Drdo, bangalore

Software Engineer Intern

Jan 2004 – Jan 2004 · 0 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Network Communication

Model-View-Controller (MVC)Software as a Service (SaaS)Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)Problem SolvingREST APIsApplication Architecture+4

Hindustan aeronautics limited

Software Engineer Intern

Jan 2003 – Jan 2003 · 0 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

UI and database schema design for Production Part Control

Model-View-Controller (MVC)Software as a Service (SaaS)Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)Problem SolvingREST APIsApplication Architecture+4

Education

University of Florida

M.S. — Computer Engineering

Jan 2007 – Jan 2008

Visvesvaraya Technological University

B.E. — Computer Science & Eng.

Jan 2000 – Jan 2004

Sherwood College, Naini Tal

High School

Jan 1990 – Jan 1998

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